Anywhere But Here
A novel by Shawn Marie Graybeal-Sellers
About the Book
Michelle Martinez learned early how to leave.
She leaves the shouting, the breaking glass, the kind of silence that comes after. She leaves Albuquerque with a camera and a way out, chasing distance across rodeo towns and open highways, building a life that never stays still long enough to trap her.
For ten years, it works.
Until Sylvia disappears.
Called back to the North Valley she tried to escape, Michelle finds that nothing has really been left behind. The Calderon house still stands, steady and watchful. Bobby Calderon still carries the quiet gravity she remembers. And the past she thought she outran waits just beneath the surface, patient and unchanged.
As the search for Sylvia unfolds, Michelle is pulled deeper into a world of loyalty, violence, and buried truths. The lines between past and present begin to blur, and the cost of leaving becomes impossible to ignore.
Some places never let you go. Some people never stop being home.
Anywhere But Here is a haunting and deeply human story about survival, memory, and what it takes to find your way back.
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